Self-feeding magazine-hammer



(No Model) A. D. CUSHING. SELF FBBDING'MAGAZIN'E HAMMER.

Patented Meir. 13, 1894.

ZOZZnesses flarzzea IONAL umoaru WASHINGTON o c UNTTED I STATES PATENT@TTro ALFRED DARLING OUSHING, OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA.

SELF-FEEDING MAGAZINE-HAMMER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 516,593, dated March13, 1894.

Application filed June 15,1893 Serial No. 477,763. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED DARLING OUsH- ING, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in W'heeling, Ohio county, West Virginia, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Self-Feeding Magazine-Hammers;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of the invention is to provide a hammer from which tacks andthe like may be automatically fed to, and held at, the face thereof, sothat all. that the operator is required to do is to supply the magazineor hopper with tacks, suited to the implement, and swing the hammer todrive the tacks.

The invention consists in the constructions and combinations hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l, is a central section of the hammer showing amagnetized bar in elevation. Fig. 2, is a view showing the face side ofthe hammer and the retaining spring in elevation. Fig. 3 is aperspective of a hopper movable within the hollow handle. Fig. at is asection on the line l'1 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 22 ofFig. 1. Fig. 6 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is aperspective of a guide piece.

A is the hammer head and B the handle. The hammer head is recessed orsocketed for the reception of a magnetized bar 0. The handle is madehollow preferably in symmetrical halves as shown and has formed withinit a nail or tack track consisting of ribs 1-1 arranged side by sidewith a narrow space or slot between. them. This track curves and extendsto the face of the ham-- mer as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Leading to thetrack is a slotted hopper or receptacle 2. This hopper has sidesconverging toward the slot as shown in Fig. 6 and the sides registerwith the ribs 1-1 forming the track. Tacks are introduced to the hopperand shaken when the stems or shanks pass through the slot and then,suspended by their heads, they pass from hopper to track and then to theface of the hammer.

I prefer, and have shown, a movable receptacle orliopper 2 made separatefrom the handle. In the form shown the movable hopper has anenlargement'S which fills the end of the handle, for augmenting thecapacity of such hopper.

The handle is provided with a slot 4 through which a pin or projection 5from the movable hopper projects. In this way the hopper is coupled withthe handle in a way that said hopper may be given a reciprocating orshaking movement independent of the handle by means of the thumb piecewithout removing it from the handle.

The hopper is provided with a lid 6 so that tacks may be readilysupplied to the hopper as they are exhausted. A catch 7 is also employedto secure the hopper and handle together. In the form shown the catchconsists of a slotted hook mounted on a set screw and adapted tointerlock with a shoulder of the handle. The magnetized bar 0 is securedin a socket in the hammer head and its working end constitutes the faceof the hammer.

E is a slotted spring secured to the handle and arranged adjacent to thehammer face as shown, constituting an open throat through which thetacks may pass and constituting means for guiding the tacks to thehammer face.

The tacks are fed along their track by gravity but as they approach theface of the hammer they come within the field of the magnet and arepromptly brought into line with the hammer head and there held forconvenient use. The spring E beyond serving as a guide, also serves as abrake to prevent the column behind from forcing the outer tack from itsseat as well as an auxiliary to the magnet for holding said tacks inposition.

It should be understood that while I'prefer and intend in all cases, touse a magnetic hammer head, the shaking hopperis equally adapted for usewith other kinds of magazine hammers.

8 is a guide piece shown in Fig. 1 and detached in Fig. 7. This piece isslightly inclined with relation to the bottom of the movable hopper soas to permit the free entrance of tack heads to the track 1. The guideis made integral with a disk like part 9 which serves to close the endof the movable hopper.

'What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In aself feeding hammer the combination of a hollow handle, and amagnetic hammer head, and a track within the handle leading to themagnetic field of the hammer head substantially as described.

2. In a self feeding hammer the combination of a socketed hammerhead,amagnetized bar in the socket a hollow handle and a track withinthe handle leading to the field of the magnetized head, substantially asdescribed.

3. In aself feeding hammer the combination of a hammer head, a hollowhandle, a movable magazine or hopper within the handle, a track leadingfrom the hopper to a face of the head, substantially as described.

4. In a self feeding hammer the combination of a magnetic hammer head, ahollow handle, a movable magazine or hopper and a track leading fromhopper to within the field of the magnetized hammer head, substantiallyas described.

5. In a self feeding hammer the combination of a hammer head, a hollowhandle having a movable slotted magazine or hopper and a track leadingfrom hopper to the head, and a retaining spring for securely holding atack against the face of the hammer, substantially as described.

6. In aself feeding hammer, the combination of a magnetic hammer head, ahollow handle having a hopper at one end and a curved track leading fromhopper to the magnetic field of the hammer, substantially as described.

7. In a self feeding hammer the combination of a hammer head, a hollowhandle provided with a track leading to the head and an independentmovable hopper, substantially as described.

8. In a self feeding hammer the combination of a hammer head, a hollowhandle having a track leading to the head and a movable hopper havingsloping sides and a slot in the bottom, leading to and forming acontinuation of the track, substantially as described.

9. In a self feeding hammer the combination of a hollow handle, amovable hopper and means to couple the hopper and handle together andpermit a relative movement between them, substantially as described.

10. In a self feeding hammer the combination of a hollow handle, amovable hopper and means for opening and closing the hopper and forlocking said hopper firmly to the handle, substantially as described.

11. In-a self feeding hammer the combination of a socketed head, amagnetized bar fitted to said socket, a hollow handle, a slotted hopper,a track leading from hopper to the magnetic field of the hammer head anda forked retaining spring, substantially as described.

12. In a self feeding hammer the combination of a socketed head, amagnetized bar fitted to said socket, a hollow handle, a track withinthe handle anda movable slotted hopper within the handle communicatingwith the track, substantially as described.

13. In a self feeding hammer the combination of a socketed head, amagnetized bar within the head, a hollow handle, a slotted movablehopper, a track leading from hopper to head, and a retaining spring,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 27th dayof May, A. D. 1893.

ALFRED DARLING OUSHING. [n s] Witnesses:

WM. M. STOCKBRIDGE, THEo. L. GATOHEL.

